Sigmund Freud Quotes
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But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
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If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
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To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.
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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
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In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
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The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.
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My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
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The world is no nursery.
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As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.
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Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.
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Dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.
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If you can't do it, give up!
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We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.
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Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.
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The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
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An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.
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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
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Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?